"I've never said this before, but I am a proud bisexual woman," the 29-year-old Grammy nominee told the crowd of 18,000 assembled at Nashville's Riverfront Park on Saturday.

Carlton, who was previously romantically linked to Third Eye Blind frontman Stephen Jenkins, performed her song "Ordinary Day," adding that "the lyrics could be about a boy, girl, tranny, whatever," and proving her point by alternating the pronouns from him to her during her performance.

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I couldn't care less about her love life. I do love her music. Especially her third album "Heroes and Thieves" I write about her here.
http://luminousmuse.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/three-graces-part-3-of-3/

You shouldn't expect MARQUEE BLOG to be what you consider "newsworthy." I find it funny how people like you come into this section and leave comments such as "this is news?" or "who cares?" because if you truly didn't care you shouldn't even be here. You truly are an idiot if you expected this section to contain anything about BP, the war in Iraq, or any other current event.

Ahhhhhh, the new in thing to be bi or gay...
Back in the late 70's...It was free love and wife swapping..
G.. only knows what people will be into in another 30-40+ years. Maybe I should just say 'yuck' now..Cause whats left..?

I'd rather not know what someones preference is. I don't feel like people should be treated differently anyway. So the "coming out" issue is, to me, is an attention getting ploy. TMI .. all the time. As if anyone cares anyway. I dig Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch with chocolate milk. Shall I shout it from the mountaintop?

One more step to the end of time. Jesus said Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Signs of the times show that this generation is wicked. Repent before it is too late.

Well, if you have three in a relationship, you have doubled the chances of successful pregnancy and more care givers when a child is born. This is the ultimate turn-on. Additionally, two woman can protect the family better against all kinds of beasts, both animal and human, if the male is killed. Same goes for families of two or more males with one or more females. There the males are able to provide more food and protection for the other members of the family and the chances for survival and successful reproduction increase once again.

yes JC. in the same way that anyone born sterile or unable to procreate is a defect. hell, let's just kill everyone that can't procreate and speed the progress of the species.

While we're at it, we should kill all those single parents, since nature obviously designed humans to maintain a nuclear family structure of a man, woman and children (even though this was an arrangement mostly universalized after the industrial revolution and the advancement of capitalism...). We must always listen to "nature."

I remember back in the 80's it was "Hip to be Square"... Now apparently in Hollywood it is "Hip to be Bi" or "Hip to be Gay"... Wonder why they are all coming out now? Could it be they are needing another 15 minutes of fame?

I have no idea who Vanessa Carlton is, but after reading some of these posts, I have to agree on the PR stunt for money. And I would like to take this opportunity to share a new "definition" I got in my e-m the other day!

Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

Do you really believe that her coming out as bi (or gay) would INCREASE ticket sales? You must be joking. The gay community does tend to love its musicians and support its artists, but there is 1-2 gay human beings out of every 10 human beings. If she were concerned about CD sales or ticketbuyers, she wouldn't have said a word. Can you people not read even just what's on this thread and have ANY concept of what the gay community gets hit with?

This is a PR stunt, and a cop-out. She never has to be seen showing any affection to a woman and can continue dating men because she is "bi". Reporter: "Vanessa, why do we only see you with men?" "Oh, I was with a girl last week, you just missed it."

Funny how if someone comes out as being gay, or in this case, bi, it is news. But say a celebrity comes out as being straight, it isn't news. Even funnier is, no one really gives a rat's patooty either way, except gays.

TICKETBUYERS and CD BUYERS do give a rat's patooty – as is evidenced by the judgmental comments on this thread – , that's WHY most athletes, singers, actors have and do NOT come out. Vanessa Carlton (a respected singer/songwriter) made that announcement at NASHVILLE PRIDE – did anybody see that? It's the gay pride weekend, it's when you WOULD come out. She didn't call a press conference and announce it randomly.

Badge of honor??.. not on my watch !! It just goes to show how money and notoriety seem to have their own level of morality. My hero's are the one's who respect themselves and others, and are able to guard themselves and their children from people like this...!!

Vanessa Carlton would be respecting herself and others who choose to live openly and honestly. It is disprespectful of you to judge her. Raise your children as you see fit, but clean your own backyard.

And who exactly appointed you to your watch? But it is nice to see that people still teach hatred and bigotry to their children. How else would irrational ignorance continue. You lead a proud tradition of making the rest of us look bad.

I'm guessing you're one of the morons too? You did after all comment =)... I'm just joking with ya... but seriously, I think it's great if she truly is bi, but I am so tired of reading about celebs who have "come out" to boost their sales and nothing more than a PR stunt. For those who do that, I think it's utterly disgusting. The gay and lesbian community has fought so hard to establish rights and freedoms, these "PRgays" make a joke of everything the community stands for. To be honest, it's 2010, nothing really shocking about being gay, lesbian, bi or anything else for that matter. Being Bi is the new hollywood fad unfortunately :(